Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 16:36:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John M Vinopal <banshee@abattoir.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharing pci irq == conflicts Message-ID: <200102090036.f190aZ302432@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Feb 2001 16:26:02 PST." <200102090026.QAA13198@abattoir.com>
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> FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE
> HP Vectra XU 6/180 Dual PPro
> used as a gateway
>
> Solid in uniprocessor mode, but in SMP it sporadically generates watchdog
> timeouts on both ethernet interfaces, which then persist and lock down the
> interfaces. Seems to be the same problem reported on Dec 25, 2000 by
> Vic E Loukatch as "FREEBSD TROUBLE" in -stable.
>
> I suspect the problem here is that they are sharing irq 11 and somehow
> getting out of sync. When I reconfigure irq (free them from isa use),
> the system runs fine.
I don't know what exactly you're saying you do here, however it's worth
knowing that in SMP mode, the "irq" value is *NOT* the IRQ assigned to a
device. It's an opaque handler number that we probably shouldn't be
printing.
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